Above is a compilation of paintings five through ten, my second week's efforts. I want to reorganize them, but keeping them in chronological order makes sense.
I'm off to a great start on week three already.
11.
On Wallis, painted with Pans underneath to establish the values, then with sticks on top of that for the details.I'm fairly happy with this one. I like the underlying composition, and the shadows please me, but I didn't have the 'right' orange-red-yellow colors in my palette and found myself niggling over those strokes in ways that I dislike now. If I was going to paint it again I'd try to use more expressive, lush strokes for the flowers.
12.
Pastelmat and Pans, no sticks at all. I'm pretty stoked with this one. Mooooody. I like the shapes and the movement. The sky and mountain are interesting and keep you going back there, but the foreground pops, too. I like the lights and the texture worked out well. The coup for me was handling the grays by using many layers of various colors. It's a real place, high up in the Rockies. Friends who do a lot of serious hiking took the photo and gave me permission to use it.
13.
On Pastelmat with Pans.It was an experiment to see if I could carry off the yellows. I might need to add more whites yet, but I like the boldness and simplicity of it. I pretty much made up the land plane, from a memory of colors seen around my (former) mountain home. More to come. Your comments would be so valuable to me. Thanks!
Deborah Secor
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